The Official Veronica Mars Thread

Ok I have posted about this in a few other TV related threads but I thought it deserved its own so heres an amalgamation of my previous posts

Just out of interest does anyone here watch Veronica Mars?

It airs opposite Lost in the states and is currently the second most popular show on that night of the week behind Lost. I watched the first series over a 3 day period and its absolutely fantastic at times I enjoyed it even more than lost its dark and funny and steals the best of everyone elses ideas.

Basically It involves a super hot 17 year old girl called Veronica Mars whos best friend is murdered while she is dating the murdered friends brother. Her dad is the local sheriff and tries to pin the murder on her boyfriends father. He gets away with it when a man confesses (very dodgy cover up) and her boyfriend dumps her, she is drugged and raped at a party in the aftermath and her whole world collapses. The public sack her father as sheriff for going for the wrong man, he becomes a private detective and she helps with his caseload.

It mixes ideas from without a trace, buffy, the oc, csi and the guessing qualities of lost.

You get a little mystery each week for her to solve with this massive coincidence and conspiracy theory hidden behind it. So its satisfies from week to week but still leaves you longing for answers like all the best dramas do. Go find it and give it a shot Series 2 has just started to air in the states.

Series 1 is also being showed 6pm weeknights on Living TV of all places albeit with heavy censor cuts. However if you don't start from the beginning it just wrecks it so wait for the re run if possible.

Great Show, just finished Season 1 and loved it.
Oh and Kristen Bell, she's in Pooty Tang riiiiiiight at the very end in the credits.
My brother is getting this for me from America, hopefully this week.

I really really really wanted to like this show. Big Buffy/Angfel/Firefly/Lost etc fan so I thought I would , but I just couldn't get into it. Got about 10 episodes in before giving up. I just found the show very juvenille

It's not that it's bad, it's just that there's a lot of stuff I consider to be in a different league to it. I just found BattleStar Galactica. Oh man what a show! No spoilers please!!n Only 5 eps in, Sharon Valerie is a godess.

At least the show's getting a good push in Ireland. It's shown here at 2:30 in the afternoon on a kids station

Flightrisker wrote:
It's not that it's bad, it's just that there's a lot of stuff I consider to be in a different league to it. I just found BattleStar Galactica.

It seems kind of strange that you would consider it juvenile in say relation to Buffy. The scripting is ten times better on Veronica and a lot more guilt edged at time with plenty of strong sexual humour.

Obviously we all have different tastes I for one thought Galactica was utter toss.

Flightrisker wrote:
It's not that it's bad, it's just that there's a lot of stuff I consider to be in a different league to it. I just found BattleStar Galactica.

It seems kind of strange that you would consider it juvenile in say relation to Buffy. The scripting is ten times better on Veronica and a lot more guilt edged at time with plenty of strong sexual humour.

Obviously we all have different tastes I for one thought Galactica was utter toss.

Each to their own I suppose.

The difference with Buffy was it grew up with it's audience. So while early seasons we're juvenille, this suited the target audience. The show then matured with them and became a very different show by the end.

I'm not saying Veronica Mars won't do this, but it's entry level is to juvenille for me to get into it.

It's like if Buffy started today from season 1 there's no way I'd be able to get into it.

I was hoping someone wouldn't say that, i'm nervous now.
She has to be in uni this season unless she drops out.
Hopefully it's more of the first season rather than the second, i've not looked to be honest for fear of disappointment.
I'll wait for one of my friends to float it my way in the flood.

jellyhead wrote:
She has to be in uni this season unless she drops out.
Hopefully it's more of the first season rather than the second, i've not looked to be honest for fear of disappointment.

A couple of the interviews with the showrunners have suggested that even they thought they got season 2 wrong. So this year there are going to be a bunch of smaller mini-mysteries instead of one huge convoluted mess.

... MINI SPOILER ...
The first mini-mystery is going to wrap up the rapist storyline introduced when Veronica went on the Uni visit last year.
... /MINI SPOILER ...

I liked season 2 even better than season 1, personally. Still think that channel 4 missed out on a ratings winner by not buying this one up. They probably couldn't afford it, what with having already bought Desperate Housewives and Lost.

Don't get what you're going on about though Flightrisker, about VM being juvenile. As a contrast, I tried watching series one of Buffy recently and it definitely didn't gel as well as I remember it doing when I first saw it, but I only saw series 1 of VM last year and it never once struck me as being immature; quite the opposite, in fact. It features some of the best writing currently around on TV.

i watched the first 5 or so eps of this when it was run on living on saturday mornings at 11.. then they started messing about with the scheduling and put it on at 10 one week.. when any self respecting person would still be asleep, then they skipped the next week entirely.. and well it just pissed me off, so i decided to get the boxset, and have been waiting for it to come out sub £20 since...

jellyhead wrote:
I thought they'd already solved *that* mystery at the end of 2?

Nope, they solved pretty much everything else though.

The episode I'm talking about is the one where she went on the open day to uni and met Troy there (her boyfriend for a few eps in Season 1 who turned out to be a drug dealer and scarpered to Mexico). They all went to a party, Troy got himself accused of raping a girl he met there, Veronica proved that Troy didn't do it, but never found the person who did. Which is where...